Thesaurus: subservient

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1. a. Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
2. adj. compliant and obedient to authority
3. adj. serving or acting as a means or aid
4. adj. abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
5. Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling. Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. Bp. Fell. These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. Ray. Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit. Burke.
6. Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity;serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in onekind or other. Bp. Fell.These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. Ray.Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizingspirit. Burke.
7. j:100 s. compliant and obedient to authority